Welcome to Fall! The glorious season of changing colors here in Upstate New York. One reason why many of us live here is for the four seasons, each one drastically different, unmatched as they change right before our eyes.
In a world of change, we long for the constant, the things that we can count on. We read in 1 Peter 1:22-25, “Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, ‘All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.’”
What a great treasure we have in this enduring word FROM God. The Bible, God’s truth, His breathed-out Word, alive and powerful, given to us so that we might be changed by it as it purifies us through our obedience to it. Timeless truth passed down from days of old, yet never out of date. Always able to affect and impact of life right where we are today, I am so thankful for this.
And to think that this comes from the greatest constant of all, God Himself. “I the Lord do not change.” (Malachi 3:6). “…The Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like the shifting shadows.” (James 1:17). Throughout the pages of the Bible we learn about this amazing God. He is unlike anything that we have ever seen or heard. We cannot fully comprehend what He is like, and yet, He invites us to learn about Him and grasp just a small portion of understanding regarding His nature. Oh that we would desire to open the Bible and focus on discovering key qualities of Who God is and what He is like.
May our minds and hearts be open to understand more and more about this Great God that has loved us!
